Mar 22, 2021

Gender-affirmation surgery is a rapidly growing field in plastic surgery, urologic surgery, and gynecologic surgery. These procedures offer significant benefit to patients in reducing gender dysphoria...

Mar 18, 2021

Obesity might be associated with mortality and clinical outcomes following transplantation; however, the direction of this relationship has not been well-recognized in youth. The aim of this systemati...

Mar 18, 2021

Brazil has the most extensive public program for organ transplantation in the world, and the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) provides full coverage of all costs involved in organ donation, tran...

Mar 18, 2021

Multiple plastic stent (MPS) use for biliary anastomotic stricture (AS) after liver transplantation requires multiple procedures with consequent costs.To compare the success, adverse events and treatm...

Mar 18, 2021

The categorization of delayed endolymphatic hydrops (DEH) based on the ear which produces vertigo may sometimes cause misdiagnosis.The aim of this study was investigating the vestibular-evoked myogeni...

Mar 18, 2021

Background The factors influencing medical student clinical specialty choice have important implications for the future composition of the US physician workforce. The objective of this study was to de...

Mar 18, 2021

The FACE-Q Rhinoplasty module is a patient-reported outcome instrument developed for the assessment of primarily aesthetic outcomes of rhinoplasty. The aim of our study was to produce a Finnish versio...

Mar 18, 2021

Injury-related morbidity and mortality have been one of the most common causes of loss in productivity across all geographic distributions. It remains to be a global concern despite a continual improv...

Mar 18, 2021

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has become a novel treatment in various aspects of medicine including orthopedics, cardiothoracic surgery, plastic surgery, dermatology, dentistry, and diabetic wound healin...

Mar 18, 2021

Few studies have investigated the reliability of Reimers' hip migration percentage (RMP) in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Most studies on the topic reflected rating results of physician with a si...

Mar 18, 2021

Eleven months into the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the country faces accelerating rates of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Little is known about the experiences of critical care physi...

Mar 18, 2021

The neural substrates of consciousness remain elusive. Competing theories that attempt to explain consciousness disagree on the contribution of frontal versus posterior cortex and omit subcortical inf...

Mar 18, 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak has spread worldwide and has resulted in hospital restrictions. The perceived impact of these practices on patients undergoing essential surgeries is less underst...

Mar 18, 2021

There is a strong association between socioeconomic status and surgical outcomes; however, the optimal method for socioeconomic risk-stratification remains elusive. We aimed to compare 2 metrics of so...

Mar 18, 2021

Intraoperative anesthesiology care is crucial to high-quality surgical care. The clinical expertise and experience of anesthesiologists may decrease the risk of adverse outcomes.To examine the associa...

Mar 17, 2021

“It’s green all right, but it’s not because you’re a gardener. Let’s get you into surgery.”   ...

Mar 15, 2021

Physiologic reserve is an important prognostic indicator. Due to its complexity, no single test can measure an individual's physiologic reserve. Frailty is the phenotypic expression of decreased reser...

Mar 15, 2021

Defibrotide is approved in European Union for treatment of severe sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (SOS) after HSCT. However, it has also been used for SOS prophylaxis, moderate SOS, and in other compl...

Mar 15, 2021

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most aggressive tumours with marked fibrosis. Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) was well-established to have antitumour and anti-fibrotic properties. To overcome...

Mar 15, 2021

Previous studies have shown that epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) involves reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, but how ferritinophagy-mediated ROS production affects EMT status remains ob...